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Security Roundup June 2025

BH Consulting

Data is their business, and business is good The black market in personal data is the focus of this year’s Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA). The data spans all sectors but the healthcare sector in particular is hit hard. Identities are currency, and a conservative valuation of this amount of data is easily $10bn USD.

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The SOC files: Rumble in the jungle or APT41’s new target in Africa

SecureList

This is a Chinese-speaking cyberespionage group known for targeting organizations across multiple sectors, including telecom and energy providers, educational institutions, healthcare organizations and IT energy companies in at least 42 countries. Impacket was executed on it in the context of a service account. 9 38.175.195[.]13

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FBI, CISA alert warns of imminent ransomware attacks on healthcare sector

Security Affairs

FBI and the DHS’s CISA agencies published a joint alert to warn hospitals and healthcare providers of imminent ransomware attacks from Russia. hospitals and healthcare providers. hospitals and healthcare providers. “CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S.

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KillNet hits healthcare sector with DDoS attacks

Malwarebytes

At the end of January, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned that the KillNet group is actively targeting the US healthcare sector with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Not for the first time by the way—the group has targeted the US healthcare industry in the past too.

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

Much of the hard evidence came from correlating breached databases sitting in the open Internet. Statistically, every US internet user has lost 27 data points on average to online breaches, most of them emails, passwords and usernames. Data scientists sorted through 27,000 leaked databases and created 5 billion combinations of data.

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NAME:WRECK, a potential IoT trainwreck

Malwarebytes

A set of vulnerabilities has been found in the way a number of popular TCP/IP stacks handle DNS requests. Yes, the researchers found 9 DNS-related vulnerabilities that have the potential to allow attackers to take targeted devices offline or to gain control over them. Basically, you could say DNS is the phonebook of the internet.

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Non-profit pledges $1 million to offer free ransomware protection for private hospitals

SC Magazine

Already overwhelmed and stretched to the breaking point by a raging pandemic, hospitals and healthcare facilities have also had to face the added chaos of locked IT systems, delayed care and substantial recovery costs. Organizations interested in signing up for the services can do so through the Center for Internet Security’s website.